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Face Detection and Gender Recognition
Face Detection and Gender Recognition
Face Detection and Gender Recognition
Michael Bax
Chunlei Liu
Ping Li
28 May 2003
Colour Spaces
RGB Colour-Space Histograms
HSV Colour-Space Histograms
Empirical PDF Approximation
Pixel Classification Error (RGB)
Pixel Classification Error (HSV)
Input Image
Pixel Segmentation
Using the RGB Pixel PDF
Non-Face Object Removal
Size-based
Non-Face Object Removal
Location-based
Non-Face Object Removal
Object Size Threshold Correction
PCA-based
Non-Face Object Removal
Connected Component
Analysis
Preprocessing
Low pass filtering,
hole filling and
background rejection
Identification of
Connected faces
identification
connected faces based
on statistical analysis
Iterative separation of
connected regions
Face separation
Connected Components
Component Separation
Separated Components
Component Identification
Template matching
and peak thresholding
to remove remaining
non-face objects
Removal of repeated
faces segments using a
distance constraint
Face Position Refinement
The face centre is located at the bridge of
the nose
The centroid of the segmented face is
somewhat inaccurate in finding face centres
Multi-scale, high threshold template
matching finds centres more accurately
Use centroid for remaining faces
Image Pyramid-based
Template Matching
Training face preprocessing
– Training faces were rotation compensated,
registered, and resampled in greyscale
– Resampled faces were averaged and masked
Greyscale input image pyramid composition
– 20% scale increments
Normalized cross-correlation with nose
bridge-centred average face template
Finding Faces
with Template Matching
High threshold for
accurate centre
location
Moderate threshold for
robust backup face
location
– if morphological
subsystem gives
unexpected results
Gender Detection
Mean intensity
Template matching
using average of each
female face
Biased towards
missing female faces
to avoid false-positive
penalty (9:1)
Face Detection Results
Results Statistics
Image Hits Repeated False Hits Distance Time (s) Bonus
1 21 0 0 11.1 91 2
2 24 0 0 15.6 90 2
3 25 0 0 10.5 97 0
4 24 0 0 11.8 97 1
5 24 0 0 10.7 103 0
6 24 0 0 9.6 94 0
7 22 0 0 11.2 88 1
Average 23.4 0 0 11.5 94 0.86
Face Detection Gender Recognition
1 3 (19) 2 (1)
2 2 (20) 4 (0)
3 4 (18) 4 (0)
4 4 (18) 4 (0)
5 9 (13) 4 (0)
6 5 (17) 4 (0)
7 7 (16) 4 (0)
8 8 (14) 1 (2)
9 1 (22) 2 (1)
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